Thomas Turpin Crittenden

Thomas Turpin Crittenden (16 October 1825-5 September 1905) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Turpin Crittenden was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1825, the nephew of the US Senator John J. Crittenden and the cousin of generals George B. Crittenden and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden. He grew up in Texas before becoming a lawyer in Missouri, and he served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War. After the American Civil War broke out in 1861, he became the colonel of an Indiana regiment, and, after the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General. On 13 July 1862, he was captured in a raid on Murfreesboro, Tennessee by Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate guerrillas, and, although he was exchanged in October 1862, he had fallen from grace and resigned in May 1863. He worked as a lawyer in Washington DC before moving to San Diego, California, where he became a real estate developer. He died in 1905.